Coll 28/111 ‘Persia. Kermanshah – Political diaries.’ [‎305r] (612/751)

17* All Kb&n wlio waa on» q£ thune invuXveu -i /
with Taiiifa Kadhid la ai* lll^advlaea, sort la a^aioat
Meritran laat sapt«riid«p t la paportad to toa etlll lu «xil«
Oii tha Iraq sloa ot‘ tno iroatlor, lu Uia PanlwlA»Avpuman
araa. Aaotdap ot ilia artlaftalna lavolvad, *iabaua Afeaa
iilall, dad the teinerUy to addreaa a letter to the aoveruor
of leunaadaj sorie week* a^o, re^ufestlng the roasoval or the
^ Oivietcuial Coanaader, a eodree which, heeavor »iaelrahle f
It hardly falls to a rebel chieftain to JMco^end* SJHiljeb--
ud-Douleh loet no time 1a reminding 4 >iali of the eeaicaeea
of hie position oy tbreateaing to hove hli» arrested, and
Siaii hoe since offered to submit to the 'eralan authorities
on terms *hieh would leave him his freedom end a certain
measure of authority. lie Is seid to have offered the
Governor a handeaac present if his tame are accepted.
la. There is little evidence that any grant intercut is
taken in 'eraanshuh ia the ,;olUle il issues of the a . >itul,
•part from a fairly gsasml rt3A4iaa t all 1^ not
well. ?h« rights and wrongs of the last rrime Hlnlat^r^e
handlla*, of the oil Question are still oco ialonally
discussed, the latest fashion bein^ tu blivae JGUa oevis rely
for clucisineaj while orediting him v/ith having rendered his
fellow-couritryumui a service ia jutti.a^ the;.i on their
guara. One local opinion 1© that Persia* u pressing need
ia outside help, not in the economic sphere but politically,
in setting up a single etron^ fc ovemr»ent la place of the
esven indepandeat forces - the dhnh, three i-iejlis factions
(fadoh, neyyid zia unw Th^ Kost) sad three potforffel foreign
missions - the oanfl left lag viowo of which must all be
reconciled, i*s things arc at present, before emythiAii can
I be done.
o*. s*. Unio.»* X w««? i
The reseda tad pass, this side of Hsmsden, sou closed
for ah«n*t periods on several ocou&iuno early in tht. nonth.
The Royal engineers are clearing ©11 the passes this -uinter
on the TeturoaHtliSMoiA road, incluuiag the Avej pasa east
of hiujsdnn which was kept open last year by the g&s ricun
Axuiy. Xhs road from deanondaj to ^iuenidai^ via furvoh is
now virtually clou ed by sacs. The director of iiosds,
Kermuashah, hue boss ullotteu a budget of kC,QOO tomsas
for repairing the roan from ke man shah north-west to
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